Late Victorian Orientalism

Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts.

• Reihe: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9781785273278
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2020
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Herausgegeben von: Eleonora Sasso